However, I did promise I would finish my analysis of my music and why it is so inspirational to me and that is what I am going to do here. So without further ado, the rest of my songs for our enjoyment!
Levels - Avicci
This song has an interesting reason for being on this list. It started with me simply looking at lists of good exercise music. It was one that was recommended, so I took a listen and realized that it was a song that a youtuber I watch regularly liked to sing badly with different lyrics. I to this day can't listen to the lyrics here without hearing Ooooooh sometimes, I got to go pee pee. yeaaaah. So for me it's just funny and entertaining and it makes me happy. Which when exercising, something that makes you happy is always a good thing.
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
I am a big fan of queen, hence why there are a number of Queen songs on the list. This one has just a great beat that really syncs well with the pace of my exercises. Beyond that, the song to me, when it says another one bites the dust, I think of it like another pound is biting the dust. It's going away, the fat is just getting off of me because it can't beat me.
Shot To The Heart - Bon Jovi
This song came onto my list after my sister recommended it to me. The reason being is that we were both watching lots of How I Met Your Mother and this was on Barney's get pumped mix. So I thought I would add it to my list to help me get pumped. However, beyond that it has come to represent my unhealthy relationship with food in the past. My addiction to food gave it a bad name, as it were.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Daft punk again makes the list. I haven't always listened to them, but I am coming into it more lately. They have just a very nice beat and this song's title really just says it all. I want to work harder, feel better, be faster and stronger. the repetition of these words over and over throughout the song become a mantra that I repeat under my breath with every exercise, every movement.
We Will Rock You - Queen
This is just another one of those classic songs that you find on so many work out mixes. It is a song about triumphing over adversity. It gets your blood pumping and it evokes in me that take no prisoners attitude I need with my weight loss. I will rock my body, I will win this fight.
Gonna Fly Now - Bill Conti
Okay, maybe this whole section is a little bit standard for most work out mixes, but there is a reason for it. As I said in my last blog, Gonna Fly Now is the song that starts off every work out of mine. Not from this list, but because it is my alarm that reminds me to exercise. It's a Pavlovian response now. I am so used to associating this song with exercise that when it comes on I start moving. I think many people do this, but I put myself into Rocky's shoes and I imagine myself being him, running and taking those steps. Someday I will do it myself, I will go running up steps and that imagery drives me onward.
Montage - Team America
Sometimes I like songs for silly reasons and sometimes I just like silly songs. This song falls into that later category. Even though it is silly, I find it incredibly motivational. Montages work for a reason and this song covers that generic idea of montage's so well that when this song plays, I am in my own montage. I have found myself imagining the process of my exercise and work out. Imagining how I will be in three months, five months, a year from now. I see a new better me and I think that I am just at the early stages of my own life montage and I will get there.
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
This song has a unique place in my heart, because it has helped me chart my mental health in some ways. When I was really depressed and in the early days of my exercise, I was habitually and accidentally saying We're Not Gonna Make It whenever I sang along while working out. It was just so ingrained, that negativity in my head. Stead work, however, has helped me get it right, we're not gonna take it. I'm not going to take this life anymore. I'm not going to deal with this anymore. I am going to get better and improve myself. And that is how it motivates me.
Under Pressure - Queen
Really, I just love this song. It's one of my favorite songs, has a great beat to it. I mean it's so good that even Vanilla Ice tried to rip that beat off. But it also sort of represents how my life has been in the past. It is a reminder of how I have felt when under so much pressure, feeling at the end of my rope. I don't want to get back there, I don't want to be like that, so this song helps me keep looking forward, to the future.
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